Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were being made to contact the person who had it or saw it last. At no time were my messages or calls returned. Nor was the mystery person ever found as far as I have been informed. Then, a couple of days after Commencement, the House offered its first hint that the banner might have been moved in arrangements for Commencement. A week later, the story was final. The banner was lost in the "Commencement shuffle...
...pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously suppress any hint of narrative judgment or point of view, and truth will be served. As a result, libraries are filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History is always slanted...
Later, the narrator is enticed home by a second woman he meets at a party, who turns out to be the driver's roommate; they tease and seduce him, then hint at a lesbian menage, until he walks home alone. Virtually the same plotline follows the opening of "Pool Lights," which begins this...
...Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments, sloppy telephone taps and occasional death threats made in anonymous calls or leaflets. On the Honduras-Nicaragua border, which some leading correspondents last week labeled the new most hazardous spot in an increasingly strife-torn region, there is an emerging hint of precaution. Said Tamayo regretfully: "In El Salvador, journalists use towels as white flags and label cars with the words for 'press.' Here it had not seemed necessary because here there was no war." It may be necessary...
...that the U.S. was pursuing "an obstructionist line" in talks on arms reductions in Geneva. The U.S., he said, thinks "not in terms of parity but in terms of superiority." But Gromyko also emphasized the importance of negotiations. U.S. officials interpret the tone of both speeches as yet another hint that the Soviets are keeping the door open in the talks on nuclear arms limitation. Last month Andropov had given that message to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, and last week Soviet television allowed Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to make a rare pitch...